This book presents advances in speech and music in the domain of audio signal processing. The book begins with introductory chapters on the basics of speech and music, and then proceeds to computational aspects of speech and music, including music information retrieval and spoken language processing. The authors discuss the intersection in the field of computer science, musicology and speech analysis, and how the multifaceted nature of speech and music information processing requires unique algorithms, systems using sophisticated signal processing, and machine learning techniques that better...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to provide innovative solutions to various societal issues and real-world social challenges. AI is useful in combating some of the seemingly unsolvable social crises facing the world today. Be it disaster awareness and management or demand forecasting, or healthcare informatics or disease outbreaks like COVID-19, the AI plays a pivotal role  everywhere.  AI has the potential to address some of the societal issues that indirectly pose challenges like cybercrime, agriculture, education, economy, and health. The book covers several applications of...